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'Hutnyk packs more dynamite in his sentences than any other writer I know.' Amitava Kumar, Penn State University Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. Cultural theorists love to toy with Marx, but critical thinking seems to fall into obvious traps. After an introduction which explains why the 'Marxism' of the academy is unrecognisable and largely unrecognised in anti-capitalist struggles, Bad Marxism provides detailed analyses of Cultural Studies' cherished moves by holding fieldwork, archives, empires, hybrids and exchange up against the practical criticism of anti-capitalism. Engaging with the work of key thinkers: Jacques Derrida, James Clifford, Gayatri Spivak, Georges Bataille, Homi Bhabha, Michael Hardt and Toni Negri, Hutnyk concludes by advocating an open Marxism that is both pro-party and pro-critique, while being neither dogmatic, nor dull.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Bad Marxism
• Subtitle: Capitalism and Cultural Studies
• Author: John Hutnyk
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780745322667
• ID: 04671393
• Publisher: PLUTO PRESS
• Weight: 399 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 135 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. June 2004

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